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coplaniuk
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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: Partitions: Primary vs. Logical [Solved] |
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I figured out a partitioning scheme through my original post in this thread. Short story: I have 6 partitions that I'd like to set up. Since I've never had such a scheme in the past, I am not really familiar with secondary and logical partitions (I hope I get the terminology correct).
Are there any performance issues or boot problems that I should be aware of? My initial thought is to do a scheme like this:
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PRIMARY - hda1 (25 Gig) - WinXP
PRIMARY - hda2 (1Gig) - <swap>
START SECONDARY
LOGICAL hda3 (40 MB) - /boot (ext2)
LOGICAL hda4 (15.5 Gig) - / (for gentoo - ext3 or reiserfs?)
LOGICAL hda5 (32 Gig) - /opt/share (fat32)
END SECONDARY
PRIMARY hda6 (remainder [just under 6 Gig]) - test partition
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Will that work? Will that cause any problems for Linux?
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nixnut
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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That will work. Note that an extended partition has its own number (hda3 in your case) and you won't be able to create a primary partition after it iirc.
So it would look like:
| Code: | PRIMARY - hda1 (25 Gig) - WinXP
PRIMARY - hda2 (1Gig) - <swap>
START EXTENDED (=hda3)
LOGICAL hda4 (40 MB) - /boot (ext2)
LOGICAL hda5 (15.5 Gig) - / (for gentoo - ext3 or reiserfs?)
LOGICAL hda6 (32 Gig) - /opt/share (fat32)
LOGICAL hda7 (remainder [just under 6 Gig]) - test partition
END EXTENDED
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| nixnut wrote: | That will work. Note that an extended partition has its own number (hda3 in your case) and you won't be able to create a primary partition after it iirc.
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Why not? You can create a primary partition after an extended one. I have one on my machine. |
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nixnut
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| runningwithscissors wrote: | | nixnut wrote: | That will work. Note that an extended partition has its own number (hda3 in your case) and you won't be able to create a primary partition after it iirc.
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Why not? You can create a primary partition after an extended one. I have one on my machine. |
Guess I remembered wrong then. Apple partitions are easier and saner 
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coplaniuk
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| nixnut wrote: | That will work. Note that an extended partition has its own number (hda3 in your case) and you won't be able to create a primary partition after it iirc.
So it would look like:
| Code: | PRIMARY - hda1 (25 Gig) - WinXP
PRIMARY - hda2 (1Gig) - <swap>
START EXTENDED (=hda3)
LOGICAL hda4 (40 MB) - /boot (ext2)
LOGICAL hda5 (15.5 Gig) - / (for gentoo - ext3 or reiserfs?)
LOGICAL hda6 (32 Gig) - /opt/share (fat32)
LOGICAL hda7 (remainder [just under 6 Gig]) - test partition
END EXTENDED
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Ok...just trying to be proactive here...but what's that do to my fstab and grub.conf? Assumming your table above...will I need to mount hda3 at all? Or does it just sorta disappear?
And would grub consider hda4 as hd0,3 still?
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| Quote: | | Assumming your table above...will I need to mount hda3 at all? Or does it just sorta disappear? |
You dont need to mount hda3, but you will see it in /dev/. Just use other patitions as you would use primary partitions. |
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Rock on....
Thanks guys.
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